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	'<{title}>' => 'No need for yesterday&apos;s trip',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2019/04/11.jpg" alt="Trees across the street" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		I dreamed I received an announcement email from Marc With a C because I&apos;m on his mailing list.
		It discussed how the Marc With a C fan community is an awesome community that believes and stands behind science.
		I didn&apos;t really get it at the time.
		I mean, yeah, science is how we know how things work.
		Marc&apos;s fans should believe in logic and reason, and by extension, science.
	</p>
	<p>
		I talked with Summer a bit later though, and it seemed that a small but vocal group was making the claim that all science is invalid.
		There was this huge news story about it, but because I don&apos;t frequent any news outlets, it takes me a bit to get word of things.
		Marc was in the news too as someone standing up for the validity of science.
		Summer recognised Marc as one of the artists I listen to, so had brought it to my attention.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My reading material for the week:
	</p>
	<ul>
		<li>
			<a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html">Purdue OWL // Purdue Writing Lab</a>
		</li>
		<li>
			<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxcommand/files/TLCL/13.07/TLCL-13.07.pdf/download">Download LinuxCommand from SourceForge.net</a>
		</li>
		<li>
			<a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/dialogue-concurrency.pdf">single.dvi - dialogue-concurrency.pdf</a>
		</li>
		<li>
			<a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/threads-intro.pdf">single.dvi - threads-intro.pdf</a>
		</li>
		<li>
			<a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/vm-dialogue.pdf">single.dvi - vm-dialogue.pdf</a>
		</li>
		<li>
			Three chapters from a $a[PDF] behind a login wall
		</li>
	</ul>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			In a two-tier database architecture, you have the client component and the server component.
			These two pieces of software are of course capable of running on the same machine, but are more-commonly split between a client machine and a server machine.
			The server houses the database, while the client takes care of application logic and the like.
			The client communicates with the server via a query language, such as $a[SQL] <a href="https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/476000/mod_book/chapter/187010/Database%20System%20Concepts%204th%20Edition%20By%20Silberschatz-Korth-Sudarshan.pdf">(Silberschatz-Korth-Sudarshan, 2001)</a>.
		</p>
		<p>
			On the other hand, in a three-tier database architecture, a third component is introduced: the application component, which can of course be let run on a third machine.
			Instead of a basic client/server model, we now have a client and two servers, one being an application server and the other being the database server from before.
			The client in such a system doesn&apos;t communicate with the database server.
			Instead, the application server acts as a middleperson and takes care of all the application logic.
			The two servers still communicate with one another using a query language, but the application server and the client will usually instead use some sort of forms interface <a href="https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/476000/mod_book/chapter/187010/Database%20System%20Concepts%204th%20Edition%20By%20Silberschatz-Korth-Sudarshan.pdf">(Silberschatz-Korth-Sudarshan, 2001)</a>.
		</p>
		<div class="APA_references">
			<h3>References:</h3>
			<p>
				Silberschatz-Korth-Sudarshan. (2001). <a href="https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/476000/mod_book/chapter/187010/Database%20System%20Concepts%204th%20Edition%20By%20Silberschatz-Korth-Sudarshan.pdf">Database System Concepts, Volume 1, Fourth Edition</a>. Retrieved from <code>https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/476000/mod_book/chapter/187010/Database%20System%20Concepts%204th%20Edition%20By%20Silberschatz-Korth-Sudarshan.pdf</code>
			</p>
		</div>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		It seems that this term, my learning journal assignments are learning journal assignments in name only.
		It&apos;s not the first time that&apos;s been the case.
		I&apos;m much less motivated when I&apos;m not writing about what I&apos;m doing though.
		It used to be that I&apos;d just write about my school activities here in my main journal when actual learning journal assignments weren&apos;t present, and to an extent, I&apos;ll be doing that this term too.
		With the censorship under effect, I&apos;m much less motivated to do that though.
		Having the actual learning journal assignments helps counter the lethargy induced by the censorship to an extent.
		In particular, I have trouble finding the motivation to read the entire reading assignment when I&apos;m not writing about it as I go in my learning journals.
		So yeah.
		There&apos;s a good chance I&apos;ll be skipping large chunks this term, especially when I&apos;m understanding what&apos;s going on and feel like the material isn&apos;t teaching enough to be worth my time.
	</p>
	<p>
		Anyway, in one course, the learning journal assignment for the week is just to answer a simple question.
		There&apos;s no maximum length limit, but there&apos;s a minimum.
		Just the way I prefer assignments to be.
		I&apos;m very verbose, and hate maximums getting in my way.
		The other course&apos;s assignment has a maximum though.
		I&apos;m expected to write about the activities for the week, but keep it brief, while also answering a question.
		On top of that, I&apos;m expected to use two paragraphs maximum.
		Obviously, I have to compact multiple things into a single paragraph to get my activities for the week covered.
		That doesn&apos;t necessarily hinder my verbosity, but disrupts my use of paragraph breaks to make my work easier to read.
		And though not given a hard limit aside from paragraph count, the assignment does say to keep it short.
		I can&apos;t be verbose enough to keep my motivation up.
	</p>
	<p>
		I didn&apos;t have the time to discuss it yesterday, as I had about an hour and fifty minutes to read as much course material as I could and get a discussion post formulated, but the professors for both courses were unprepared for class to start, and failed to post the discussion topics.
		The topics are usually posted before the week begins, though students can&apos;t see the posts until they&apos;re relevant.
		You can tell by the timestamp that the professors post them weeks or even months in advance at times though.
		However, not this time.
		Using the lesson guide, I can see the discussion topic as soon as it becomes relevant, even if the professor hasn&apos;t posted it yet, but I can&apos;t actually post it to the board until the professor posts the question due to how the board is set up.
		So while I wrote up a discussion post yesterday, I couldn&apos;t get it actually submitted until today.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="pay">
	<h2>Lost pay cheque</h2>
	<p>
		It was a struggle to bike to my workplace today.
		It&apos;s such a short distance, but I have almost no strength left in my legs.
		This cold isn&apos;t making it any better, as I now don&apos;t have the oxygen needed to power my legs either.
	</p>
	<p>
		Surprisingly, the head manager said they&apos;d email the person in charge about the lost pay cheque.
		I thought for sure they&apos;d tell me to try to reach this person.
		Maybe it&apos;s because the person in charge snapped at one of the lesser bosses for contacting them.
		For some reason, they weren&apos;t happy about being contacted by lesser employees.
		Perhaps the head manager remembered that, and knew I really didn&apos;t stand a chance of getting a better response, seeing as I&apos;m not even a boss of any sort.
	</p>
	<p>
		The bike trip home was incredibly difficult.
		I&apos;m probably going to walk to work tomorrow.
		I just don&apos;t have the strength to keep biking.
		I made the right choice in deciding not to attend the $a[EUGLUG] meeting even if I got the mess with the pay cheque cleared up in time.
		I&apos;m not sure I would have made it all the way.
		I doubt I would have outright collapsed, but I would very likely have reached a point in which I couldn&apos;t bike any further, and had to walk home from wherever I&apos;d made it to.
		Once I was on foot though, I might have gotten to the point of collapse, though unlikely.
		I&apos;m just nearly certain I wouldn&apos;t&apos;ve collapsed off the bike while I was moving.
		What a pain.
		At this point, I wish I hadn&apos;t made the trip to the franchise office yesterday and left the note.
		The head manager has trained my by this point to have absolutely no faith in them though, so it&apos;s not like it was very likely for the trip to be as unnecessary as it ended up being.
		A made a judgement call, and I happened to guess wrong.
	</p>
	<p>
		I can&apos;t do this to myself next break.
		I just don&apos;t have the endurance needed to pull this off.
		And yet, it&apos;s not like I had a choice this time.
		There were things that needed to get done before the break ended.
		I got them done.
		I did what I had to.
		What if next break turns out the same?
		I don&apos;t think it will though.
		I think my new plan of action involves a slower pace after this initial rush.
		I think I want to succeed in getting my outward masculinity toned down before I move on to anything that necessarily involves meeting new people.
		That means no job hunt, not looking into martial arts lessons, et cetera.
		When the world can perceive me closer to how I perceive me, I can start the next steps in moving on with my life.
		I&apos;m not even going to have started the vocal lessons this term, so I can&apos;t do much of consequence during the next break.
		I can probably mostly relax, though I will need to stay productive on some front just to keep things moving.
		It&apos;ll likely be work on my website though, and not trip after trip to Eugene.
		Maybe I&apos;ll study Perl or something.
	</p>
</section>
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